Junior Software Engineer

Crédit Agricole CIB; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A large international bank in Singapore is seeking a talented Software Engineer to join its Capital Markets IT team. The successful candidate will have over 2 years of experience in Java and strong knowledge of Unix platforms and database management. Responsibilities include designing and developing specialized software applications, collaborating on technology integrations, and leveraging programming skills to automate processes. The position offers an opportunity to work with advanced technologies within a dynamic financial environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in Java.
• Good knowledge in UNIX and database management systems like SQL and Oracle.
• Exposure to tools like Grafana, Confluence, Jira, and Gitlab.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and develop software or utility programs.
• Collaborate on software integration with hardware systems.
• Develop scripts using Python and shell scripting.

Skills

Java

UNIX platform

Database management systems (SQL, Oracle, Sybase)

DevOps tooling (GIT, Jenkins)

Docker / Kubernetes

Tools

Elastic Search

Grafana

Prometheus

Kibana

Job description

Who we are

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (Crédit Agricole CIB) is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, world’s 10th largest bank by total assets.

Our Singapore center is the 2nd largest IT hub for Crédit Agricole CIB's worldwide business. We work daily with international branches located in 30 countries by:

• Envisioning and preparing the Bank’s futures information systems
• Collaborating and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large-scale development projects
• Providing premium In-house Banking applications

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market.

We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.

Department and Position

Capital Markets IT involves technology solutions and systems used in financial markets for trading, investment, and related activities. This includes electronic trading platforms, risk management systems, market risk, counterparty risk, algorithmic trading, data analytics, and Regulatory measures. The use of advanced technologies like API’s, artificial intelligence and cloud solutions are also becoming increasingly prevalent in capital markets to enhance efficiency and decision-making processes.

The department is responsible for development and maintenance of Capital Market IT applications (in-house and package) used worldwide, covering Front Office (Murex, Apex, Orchestrade…), Back Office (Summit, Calypso…), Market data referential (Asset Control..), Market Risk (in-house application on big data technologies).

The Foreign Exchange (FX) IT division, works across the full value chain to sustain business activity and enable its acceleration.

We are seeking a talented Software Engineer with a strong aptitude for programming to join our dynamic Capital Market Department!

In this role, you will contribute to projects and possesses capability to make breakthroughs in design, development, testing, debugging and implementing software applications or specialised utility programs in support of end users' needs on platforms.

Main Responsibilities

• Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialised utility programs. Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis
• Identify and resolve issues which have organisation wide and long-term impact. Identify security risks, creates requirements to capture security issues, and performs initial threat modelling to ensure coding standards meets security requirements
• Develop and maintain the software configuration management plan and oversees the building, verification and implementation of software releases. Provide guidance and technical support to the quality testing teams
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures
• Collaborate with computer hardware engineers (CAGIP and ITS) to integrate infrastructure constraint (whether in-premise or cloud) hardware and software systems aligned with capacity, develop specifications and performance requirements
• Participate to proof of concept for new technology R&D
• Contribute to continuous improvement and automation by leverage your programming skills to create custom tools and scripts that automate repetitive tasks and reduce manual effort
• Develop scripts and automation tools using Python, shell scripting, and other basic programming languages to streamline processes and improve efficiency
• Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes relevant to capital markets

Qualifications and Profile

• 2+ years of hands on experience in Java
• Good knowledge in UNIX platform and database management systems( SQL, Oracle, Sybase, BigData..)
• Valuable exposure to tools & technologies like Elastic Search, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Control-M, KAFKA, Confluence, Jira, Gitlab, MQ Series
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms and services
• Experience in DevOps tooling (GIT, Maven/Graven/Nuget/Ansible, Jenkins, Sonar…)
• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes
• Dababase: Oracle, Sybase
• Developing Microservices